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| From | Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Good new altenate history authors? |
| Date | 2016-06-07 06:08 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20160606f@crcomp.net> (permalink) |
| References | <f8b038cb-79ec-4382-8b68-9460a981dc4a@googlegroups.com> <P4adnTLW9v0SrMvKnZ2dnUU7-c2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2016-06-06, Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm a big alternate history fan. I've read most of Turtledove's stuff and the
>> SM Stirling alternate history stuff, along with Stross's Merchant Princes
>> novels and Eric Flint's 163X. What I'm looking for are authors on the way up
>> with stuff that plays the AH reasonably straight--not the Roman empire
>> survives because they tamed dragons and Emperor Marilyn Monroe is now
>> invading President Jeb Bush's US or Nazi sorcerers.
>
> The very first to spring to mind is actually a webcomic, found at
> girlgeniusonline.com . An alternate Europe (and England) in a universe where
> devisors, called "sparks", build gadgets and organisms that toy with the laws
> of physics and are susceptible to Science-Related Memetic Disorder as well
> ( < http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder > )
> {DO NOT CLICK THE ABOVE LINK IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO DO TODAY}.
Yet another (older than GG) AH is _The Man in the High Castle_ by PKD.
--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU
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Good new altenate history authors? Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 08:10 -0700
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Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-07 04:13 +0000
Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-07 14:20 -0400
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Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-07 06:08 +0000
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